President Trump posted a statement on Truth Social about the latest Jeffrey Epstein files release from this past Friday, threatening lawsuits and downplaying his past ties with the late sex offender.
“Not only wasn’t I friendly with Jeffrey Epstein but, based upon information that has just been released by the Department of Justice, Epstein and a SLEAZEBAG lying ‘author’ named Michael Wolff, conspired in order to damage me and/or my Presidency,” Trump’s post read.
“So much for the Radical Left’s hope against hope, some of whom I’ll be suing. Additionally, unlike so many people that like to ‘talk’ trash, I never went to the infested Epstein island but, almost all of these Crooked Democrats, and their Donors, did.”
Trump has long denounced Wolff, who has written four books about him. The president also has repeatedly noted he stopped being friends with Epstein in the early 2000s.
But Trump’s name was mentioned several hundred times in the latest batch of Epstein files released by the Justice Department on Friday. Many of those mentions came in email conversations between Wolff and Epstein.
Trump was aboard Air Force One during a flight to Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday when he responded to a reporter’s question about the more than 3 million Epstein-related records and personal emails that the Justice Department released Friday.
The president claimed on Saturday that Epstein and Wolff were conspiring to hurt him politically. Many of the email conversations took place during the 2016 presidential election and during Trump’s first term in office.
“It looked like this guy, Wolff, was a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “I didn’t see it myself, but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it’s the opposite of what people were hoping, you know, the radical left, that Wolff, who’s a third-rate writer, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me, politically or otherwise, and that came through loud and clear.”
He added he was considering suing Wolff and the Epstein estate “because he was conspiring with Wolff to do harm to me politically. That’s not a friend.”
In February 2016, Wolff suggested, in an email, that Epstein could be the “bullet” to end Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“Yeah, you’re the Trump bullet,” Wolff responded to an email from Epstein, who noted that he was being approached by more reporters about Trump’s presidential campaign.
Trump and Epstein were friends starting in the late 1980s, but had a falling out around 2004 before the late financier was criminally charged for sex crimes. In 2109, Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial in what investigators deemed a suicide.
